Kenneth Turanhttp://www.newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/7013/0
enBozell Column: Superheroes and Slashershttp://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brent-bozell/2010/05/01/bozell-column-superheroes-and-slashers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img hspace="3" vspace="3" border="0" src="http://screencrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/kick-ass-hit-girl-11-3-10-kc.jpg" align="right" height="145" width="228" />When we think of comic-book superheroes, most of us who grew up in the last century think of mild-mannered reporters, or perhaps urbane millionaires with a secret identity, who fight crime heroically. They collar the bad guys and deliver them to justice. Even the supervillains they’d fight always seemed to escape so they could resurface in a later issue, and the struggle of Good vs. Evil continues.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">That is not what a customer will find if he makes the mistake of taking in the new movie crudely titled “Kick-Ass.” The concept seems innocent enough – teenage comic-book devotee with absolutely no powers puts on a goofy wetsuit and tries to be a hero. But that's just the first few minutes. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What follows next is an entirely different movie, a gory slasher film, except the vigilante mass murderer is an 11-year-old girl in a costume that included a purple wig and a plaid private-school skirt. This little “Hit Girl” doesn't play by any moral rules, however. In her first mass-murder scene, she even double-spears a prostitute armed with only a broken booze bottle.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 01 May 2010 13:36:52 +0000Brent Bozell35945 at http://www.newsbusters.org